What are the responsibilities and job description for the Vice President position at Breakwater Strategy?
About the job
Breakwater Strategy, a strategic communications and insights agency, is seeking an experienced communications professional to join our growing team of advisors. Breakwater advises companies, brands, coalitions and non-profits on how to navigate change, crises and complexities.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment with high-stakes projects. This role will serve as a trusted advisor: offering strategic direction to clients for their most consequential communications challenges, while also managing a team and helping grow the firm. We look forward to hearing from you.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Serve as a strategic advisor to clients, providing guidance on communications challenges involving policy, regulatory, legal and reputational issues
- Lead the development of media strategies at the national and local level, including pitch angles and reporter targets
- Deep understanding of the changing media landscape and what it takes to break through
- Help conceptualize, develop and review a high volume of daily deliverables for client-readiness, simplifying complex legislative, regulatory, legal or other general issues
- Oversee account project management, including work plans, staffing, deadlines, monitoring of account budgets and needs
- Manage and/or mentor junior staff
- Manage new business process and efforts, including identifying and communicating those opportunities which build on current client work
ATTRIBUTES
- A BA/BS degree in a related field and 10-15 years of relevant experience
- Strong preference for comms experience in government, on Capitol Hill, at a technology company or agency
- Demonstrated ability to provide strategic counsel to senior clients
- Proven track record of managing quality across a team handling fast-moving, daily client deliverables at scale
- Able to effectively manage both internal teams and client relationships on all sized accounts
- Experience working with reporters and established media contacts, including in the DC ecosystem
- Strong strategic thinker with understanding of how larger economic and public policy landscape impacts clients’ communications abilities and needs
- Experience and ambition for sourcing and/or successfully leading efforts to obtain new business
- A demonstrated capacity for leadership, communication and teamwork